as cooper let's get back to it mayor bloomberg ban has crashed it was overturned on march eleventh on big sodas we now know more people in the united states die from big sodas than die from marijuana right we know that i doubt either one of you guys would argue that point with me so why don't we decriminalize marijuana let all those people out of jail who are there for pot and say you know that works so well for the last forty years we're going to put the same penalties on high fructose corn syrup well i mean this is the riser than that he stayed come on i generally i repeat facetious kev i know you are and i know you are i don't think that a lot of the time let's talk about this sort of thing what's next do we do we do we ban mama leonis lasagna i mean that's a heart attack waiting to happen i mean or do you stop this i think mayor bloomberg was very i think it was obvious as there at thirty two ounces was a look a mom up mother told as one of our mothers told us everything in moderation i mean if we want to take too much week grass will probably kill us but you know we got it

we got i do kate let's look at why don't you keisha you know i it's like i don't disagree that our children to live healthy i personally believe that their bloomberg exceeded his authority was something we should have been done by this not by the executive and i don't think he could have gotten through the city council bad sad i think he's raised an important issue which is going to become a laughing stock is what he may he may not have i think that he's. going through and i've got no real issue with discussing the topic i'm fine with public service announcements those are times when government can do some good things reminding us how we ought to be more careful about these things but if when people like bloomberg go further than that in the side i'm going to tell you to day to day you may not purchase more of them sixteen ounces of a soft drink because i said so that just takes it too far ok so we know in america we know that roughly fifty thousand people a year die from alcohol abuse from cirrhosis the liver you know alcohol. alcoholism

should actually religion or and we know in the united states between four hundred five hundred thousand people a year die from tobacco abuse and so we tax both those products to discourage their use it's increasingly looking like the number of people in the united states every year who die from consuming. high sugar soft drinks is probably on the bottom end thirty to forty thousand on the high end for five hundred thousand but it's it's in that range of tobacco and alcohol should we start to have seen this it's sugar and i mean it i mean with diabetes i mean there's a lot of people who do things they shouldn't do right what is going to have on the lord sugar it isn't a part of living in these by the way tom our companies who are our tax paying companies who are employing people and they're living within the law to have the right operate american heart association says one hundred eighty thousand deaths well it's world wide but they want you to come driving due to the seriousness of the problem but women the tobacco supporters said to america you know they're starting with us today but it'll come to you next and that was poop because it was

just going to focus on this serious problem jacqui pretty much you've just admitted the plan is you need to have we're going to fight anything on popular we're going to come i don't know if you are installing a lot. only because you do have socialized health care but if you take the socialization out of health care then the people themselves will have to bear the cost in. turn this into a debate about national health care and whether we should have when the economy as well government doesn't know how to live our lives it's what's one hundred ways forget the health care costs it costs us lost productivity lost wages lost friendships lost relationships lost moms and dads and kids i mean there's all kinds of expenses beyond the health insurance costs but to that point yes you know we as a society know that either add up or a minute you have you're saying what you're saying is the old you're on probably your barons be sure that we pick up the cost of their. are killing people eggs and

i want to convey to you that because no sugar bear and puts a gun to anyone's head and forces them to take a soft drink. actually that's not true in fact many are adamantly you know actually as people of the un perhaps a little league it looked without your permission i really do that really yes really how did in many instances it's the whole goal of the drug dealer to find a way to hook you so that afterwards then they can sell to you so there's you on exactly the thing that the sugar to the guys who do it so the shearer guys are the same as they aren't as killer magnum i really think i did well i mean what i want. people to stop what is it stuff it's not sugar stuff no it doesn't stop with radio hollywood i'm going to leave there are on the other people and once you maim whatever the thing where are you really quite quite aggressively you know you've got seat belts you've got air bags i know you guys didn't like any of this stuff but hey it's so you guys and embarrass you still don't ok c.v.s. speaking of health care now we get back here to operate here new policy at c.v.s.

requires workers who get health insurance. to report to the company their body weight body fat glucose levels or pay a six hundred dollars fine if the workers don't provide the information medical coverage goes up fifty bucks a month is this a invasion of privacy or be simply the free market at work well at first at first blush it does look to be invasive but osha does require blood tests for the operating of certain machines my company we have a drug free policy and that people have to have blood tests for potential drug abuse and mental health things are doing that blood blood test you stick needles in your employees are you know i mean this is a lot of companies now have drug free workplace rules right so i mean that's that's being implemented throughout the country and you'd be surprised how many companies are doing that i would write so there's not just drugs and i would not want to work in a place that said well we don't we're on i want you to go to you go to a clinic to do it obviously but this is the unintended consequence of obamacare is so. companies like like big corporate states no it won't work we're an

entrepreneurial business but tom this is the unintended consequence of obamacare you know i just did my. you know we're we're redoing our health care now and becoming compliant twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen i just did that this week that sort of increases that we're going to have this year and next year i mean these companies have to survive somehow they always do how easily is only taking a billion dollars out of healthy or he's got to make more money he's got one hundred executives who make over a million dollars it is our obligated to pay this level of health care employees need to be a partner in that process you know because it's a financial benefit should they not have to step up and also try to modify i'm not the airline and i'm more held to i'm not going to sit here and say i think that obamacare is the solution to anything in particular particularly the fact that it uses for profit health insurance we're still paying twice what anybody who is just seem to be beginning right now about this is going to lead to you let me tell you what c.v.s. is doing you're going to see so much more outrageous things when people try to control their health care and get into the private life of their employees because

if they're not living healthy lives they're not going to be able to afford to keep a horse it's not a it's not a big government nanny state it's a big corporation nanny state everybody's going to end up like nails poor employees i do wonder about the details of this because it's always like they're very well there may be some bend over. there maybe some eighty a issues that make some of that illegal but on the other hand if you're getting this benefit from your employer he has a general right to be able to stick it out with the as i said the existing a.t.m. rules make me wonder whether or not that's allowed because if it exposes certain preexisting handicaps that you have that are your private right to have these handicaps you can't discriminate on the grounds that they're great and that's a murky question drugs but workplaces only to check for drug abuse what so he is saying he has development i don't have a problem here is that here's the question what c.v.s. is doing is it invasion of privacy or is it the free market work it is it appears to be so but if they are expecting a better. the company has

a right to know i guess if their employees are doing today or invades my privacy all the time that's not the point the point of the question first i'm going to place i just older more legally and if they can do this legally it is legal so so bottom line you do you wouldn't want the government to invade your privacy because that's part that's pretty prohibited by the first amendment but you're just fine if your corporation invades your privacy but this is only a link back you have already taken the reasonable cause to people out of your government but you're free to choose when you don't all have had lawyers get all together and they're just one giant employer and you know more well that several guys call themselves late as as late the banal as they argue that is increasingly the world we live in i mean it's it's once you've got your infrastructure plan in place that's going to be the only place tomorrow plane of sixty thousand feet and land in any city in america look around and tell me where you are fifty thirty years ago before reagan you could have told me where you work because you would see all these small local businesses now you have no idea because it's a c.v.s. everywhere you go so it's any we have we're at c.b.s.

wal-mart i think they're really the first time and i'm going to say for the first time in years i get the last word but you guys. are right so you are as if you are having his thank you both do we appreciate it. it's the good the bad of the very very nap on a cli ugly the good aaron jackson jackson an activist and director of. org is literally bringing the fight against bigotry to the front door of one of america's most homophobic organizations the westboro baptist church after looking up the church's topeka kansas headquarters he realized that the house across the street was for sale it was an opportunity too good to be true jackson and his organization purchased the house now called the quality house and decorated it with the colors of the gate wide play. oh the westboro baptist church has released

a profanity filled statement about their new neighbors jackson says the rest of the topeka community has responded positively to the equality house good work here is more proof that nothing fights bad speech better than good speech the bad james i was the head of the texas based great fort bend county tea party. government or democracy for that matter to a recent report in texas tribune i have to is a high ranking member of the american fascist party to at least two thousand and three although i've says his time with the mussolini loving a.f.p. was just a joke his posts on the message board seem pretty serious texas tribune is uncovered this telling quote it will be our greatest challenge and our sweetest victory to finally surpass this dark menace this numbing threat from the shadows and replace it with a pure sunday as our fashions our actions through. the tribune scoop is

a reminder that with the right wing hate groups at an all time high in america the political fringe is probably a bit closer to the mainstream parties that was left. and the very very ugly joseph de mint dot donald to show for plymouth county massachusetts dug himself into a deeper hole tuesday when he tried to defend a joke he made about assassinating president obama during a st patrick's day party on sunday in mcdonald's joke obama asked the ghost of lincoln how he can best serve his country to which lincoln responds go to the theatre of old baggage lincoln of course killed of ford's theater there in d.c. during the inevitable firestorm following his comments mcdonnell accused his critics of acting like nazis in one nine hundred thirty eight germany because you know calling out a law enforcement official first justify these as it is to the president that it's got to be fascism in fact the mcdonnell a public servant is unable to see any sort of problem with this obama lincoln joke and last office pretty. that's here. after the break ten years

after the start of the iraq war and the shills for the bush administration the corporate media had yet to apologize for being so wrong and for misleading an entire nation prison time we all got the apology we deserved more on that in tonight's deleted.

well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot but you sir are a fool you know what that is my self a little bit i want usa to feature is not the only liberal democrats template you. can stick your beliefs about it's. going to support any of the structures from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells us sensationalistic garbage because of breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that.

looks. more. importantly. my. place.

it's crude news not even three weeks after the devastating sequester budget cuts went into effect and small businesses across america are already hurting our new professor stephen fuller george mason university the sequester budget cuts that went into effect will result in nearly one point four million lost private sector jobs and according to for nearly half of those job losses will come from small businesses so what are small businesses across the country doing to whether these devastating budget cuts as well as to survive in an already weak economy joining me now is elliot richardson president of the small business advisory council of chicago illinois eliot welcome a tom thanks for having me great to have you with us so the sequester what one of the one of the consequence was is an accurate characterization of this is going to get whacked yet we're going to get hurt i mean i mean there's there's money that's going to come out of small businesses because of the sequester so nine hundred

million dollars in lending that the s.p.c. may have been able to do the s.b.a. will not be able to do now that the small business administration small business ministration exactly government contracts are going to be there for small businesses and consumers i mean consumers are going to be spending so there's going to be a very real impact that the sequester is going to have but more than that is the uncertainty that the sequester and the fiscal cliff has on small business owners you hear about this uncertainty all the time but you hear it from political pundits i'm on the ground i have thousands of business owners that i talk to all the time and i can tell you we feel that they're not going to hire they're not going to grow they're going to do everything they can do to survive when they're facing what they believe is falling off a cliff because when you fall off a cliff. you die unless the real little cliff so that's that's part of the impact of what all of this is going to do a lot so the the. the group the you have

the s.b.a. yes small business advisory council in chicago. you are. working with the the possibility of rolling out the ability of small local companies to do crowd fund yes following what this is yeah well with with all of the uncertainty that's out there and with the great difficulty that small businesses have getting access to capital and we have twenty banks in the s.b.a. see and the bankers on the ground they do want to land but sometimes it's very difficult for them crowdfunding was in the jobs act there were a lot of things in the jobs act but one of the things in the jobs act would allow small business owners to raise up to a million dollars from their community from their friends from their business associates it would empower us in small increments to raise money it would create competition for the banks and for large venture firms and really allow us to take matters into our own hands we cannot do that right now we are allowed to through the jobs act but until the ask e.c.

writes the rules which we were supposed to do in january nobody can launch you can you can do that on a private base so i mean you can go to friends family whatever and say here's my business for you would you kick some money but you can cancel it sits right on sorry so you can't turn it so there can't be a middleman isn't isn't there some some legitimate concern that if small businesses start basically doing i.p.o.'s there may be something a little less than the best due diligence being done because there's just not the big money for the big lawyers to do the proper due diligence absolutely and that is why risk for investors yeah and that's why you got it you got to have the f.c.c. write the rules the rules are crucially important and in the jobs that are already some rules like you can only in vast i believe it's two percent of your income in. private investments through crowd funding so you know there do need to be those those certain in safeguards that are put into place but it would also open up

a whole new force of revenue for entrepreneurs sure and for small businesses they need capital and you guys are also with the small business visor council in chicago you're also putting together health insurance co-ops well we pushed for a law that would allow that so your last guest i have very interesting exchange you had about monopolies and health insurance. before obamacare small businesses were getting killed by health insurance companies after obamacare small businesses are still getting killed by health insurance companies we need an alternative durance companies are still for profit business they are and there's like four and four there's four major health insurance companies and what you have is an essential monopoly health insurance cooperate is will allow small businesses to pool together and not farm out to insurance companies but to try to create a vehicle to compete with those insurance companies we push it one way to get the ability to do that we can and now a group and c.h.p. has been funded to the tune of one hundred sixty million dollars to build

a co-op and you know to our republican friends the s.p.c. is half public and half democratic right up the middle to republicans we say shouldn't we have the opportunity to compete in the free market which is for major insurance companies as may well work well just make it work elliot richardson thank you so much and you so much will be back. yesterday the u.s. mark the tenth anniversary of the start of the iraq war and over the course of the past ten years we've learned more and more about how the war with iraq actually started it's incredibly easy to blame the bush administration for the lies that led us into iraq but cheney rumsfeld and company were in the. only ones who played an integral role in convincing our nation that saddam hussein was a threat in the w m d's were a foregone conclusion in the days and weeks leading up to the invasion of iraq

corporate media even n.p.r. and p.b.s. were abuzz with the talking points of the bush administration echoing claims that iraq had its hands on yellowcake uranium and that it had a massive arsenal of weapons of mass destruction thanks to the media's repeated claims that iraq and saddam hussein were immediate threats to our nation in the weeks leading up to the invasion nearly three quarters of americans believe the lie promoted by donald rumsfeld the saddam hussein was somehow involved in the attacks of nine eleven. one of the biggest proponents of the iraq war was fox's bill o'reilly nearly every day leading off up to the invasion of iraq or rally used his pedestal on fox so-called news to pitch the pro-war lies of the bush administration in march of two thousand and three prior to the invasion of iraq o'reilly interviewed actress and political activist jeanine garofalo about her opposition towards going to war with iraq and asked her what she would do if she was wrong with her about iraq particularly. if you are wrong.

and if the united states and they will this is going to happen goes in liberate people in the street american flags hugging our soldiers all right we find all kinds of bad bad stuff right you know you're going to apologize to george w. bush i would. say i'm sorry i hope. that i can be made a buffoon that people. fatalist i would go to the white house on my glass and say. coffee or went on to say that she didn't think it would come to that and guess what she was right now riley as usual was wrong our soldiers were not met by throngs of iraqis who loved america and we certainly didn't find all kinds of bad stuff stuff bad. so the real question here is ten years after being so wrong why hasn't bill o'reilly apologized to groff alone and the american public for

misleading us so badly in two thousand and four o'reilly was on a.b.c.'s good morning america and offered a half hearted apology for being so wrong and said that well my analysis is wrong and i'm sorry i was wrong i'm not pleased about it at all we should know reilly get out of his hands and knees and offer a real apology to all of us for being a mouthpiece for the bush administration's deeply misguided mission to invade iraq and why stop there rally shouldn't be the only one apologizing to the american team after all the rally wasn't the only one of the media to make the case for war with iraq in the bush administration's lies in the shill for the bush administration with sean hannity february nineteenth two thousand and three episode of hannity and colmes and he told fox news contributor ellis henican that we're going to go and we're going to liberate this country in a few weeks it's going to be over very quickly now it's going to be over very quickly and what i'm going to tell you here is you're going to find i predict mass graves we're going to open up those hang on let me finish these gulags these prisons and you're going to hear stories of rape and torture and misery and then

we're going to find all the weapons of mass destruction that all of you guys on the left say don't exist. clearly hannity was wrong about the war should be apologized the american people and there's steve hayes fox news contributor and writer for the conservative publication the weekly standard repeatedly used his columns in the weekly standard in his time on fox or called news to push the now debunked lie that al qaeda and saddam hussein were in extra complete linked back has even wrote a book about the so-called lake called the connection it is a collaboration with saddam hussein has endangered america but as we all know he was wrong to do so where is his apology then there's his colleague it was charles krauthammer at the time of the war krauthammer was a fox news contributor and columnist for the washington post and much like hayes use the power of the pen to argue that the iraq war would usher in unprecedented levels of democracy in the middle east in april of two thousand and two you wrote the washington post that time is running short saddam has weapons of mass

destruction he's working on nuclear weapons and he has every incentive to pass them on to terrorists who will use them against us we cannot hold the self-defense of the united states hostage to the solving of a century old regional conflict krauthammer was one hundred percent wrong about the iraq. finally there's an assembly says joe scarborough he was one of the strongest proponents of war with iraq outside of fox news in march of two thousand and three p. to make claims that toppling saddam hussein would mean the end of his weapons of mass destruction in april of two thousand and three scarborough so that for six months george bush dick cheney and donald rumsfeld have been telling the world the people of iraq need to be liberated from saddam hussein's bloody rain past three weeks of showing us just how right these three men have been in that same commentary scott discover all pondered whether journalists at the new york times and n.p.r. a.b.c. here at c.n.n. are going to ever admit just how wrong their negative pronouncements were over the

past four weeks. well joe turns out the occasional anti-war activists who made it onto the mainstream media and they were few and far between or right and you were wrong so where is the apology. ten years after going to war based on international lies and intentional. and after thousands of american lives have been lost the majority of the media has yet to offer any some words of apology for being so wrong and for not playing the real role of journalism and questioning the bush administration hard for the media failed us leading up to the iraq war and it's cost hundreds of thousands of human beings their lives in the united states has lost both trillions of dollars and our standing in the world as a moral force it's time for our media to offer us and the people of iraq an apology and make sure the sort of thing never happens again like they're getting

ready to do with iran. and that's the way it is tonight wednesday march twentieth twenty thirteen for more information on any of the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot. org. and if you missed any of that i had show you can i watch it on hulu hulu dot com slash which also check out our two you tube channel so and so over time when they are also there you can check out all the different ways you can see others. and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport it requires active participation get out there get active show up occupy something tag you're it.

wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike's culture for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. legal eagles.